Softening compound



Patented ca. 16, 1928, p I 1,687,787

UNITED "s'mrrzsv PATENT OFFICE.

zmnnnnrc'x' .1. PILGRm, or nnrnon, Jamaican.

sonmnnnve comrounn. No Drawing. Application Hedi December 4, 1324,Serial No. 753,930. Renewed August 2a, 1928.

I This invention relates to a softening com-" In the above pound thewater serves to pound that may be advantageously used for increasethe-liquid content of the compound, temporarily softening lacqueredsurfaces or the kerosene oil as a lubricant, the soap as an any surfaceproduced by a coating containing emulsifier, the oil of mirbane orWintergreen 5 gun cotton, nitro cellulose, banana oil or as a softener,the water dye, preferably blue 4 amylacetate, such surface ordinarilyhaving as a color and the tripoli as an abrasive.

an outside skin that is more or less indurate The above ingredients aremixed in the foland impenetratab-le by an ordinary abrasive. lowingmanner: The kerosene oil is placed in As an instance of such surface maybe menan agitating or mixing machine, theIvory tioned the well knownDuco finish for autosoap which is preferably pure .white, is dis- 4:;

mobile bodies. y solved in water and then the soapy solution Myinvention, in its broadest aspect, in added to the oil in the agitatingmachine.

volves asoftening compound including an in- The oil of mirbane orWintergreen is then gredient which will attack and temporarily placed inthemachine aIong with the dye and l soften an indurate surface so thatan abrasive the machine operated for approximately 50 I may have a quickaction relative to the surthirty minutes or time sulficientto thoroughlyface, and thus permit of the surface being exmix the tripoli in theadmixture; peditiously and economically rubbed down."

\ The ingredient does not soften the entire coatsistency of Vaseline andmay be readily aping but momentarily it attacks the skin of the .pliedto a surface and rubbed thereon until 66 coating so that the abrasivemay become efa desired result is attained. I attach considfectiveforrubbing down purposes. erable importance to the oil ofmirbane or Mycompound consists of a mixture of Wintergreen since it prepares a. wayfor the water, mineral oil, soap, oil of mirbane or abrasive and permitsthe abrasive to readily "5 Wintergreen, dye and tripoli. attack thesurface being rubbed down. 00

' In 'preparing the compound I vprefer to use What I claim is: A theingredients in about the following pro- A softening compound adapted forattackportions, viz: ing lacquered or like surfaces consisting 15%v Percent. of water, of mineral oil, 3% of soap, 1% Wa .1 of oil of mirbane,1% of dye, and f a;

Kerosene o1l u; 30 t i li, Iv y f-P'----- --j. 3 In testimony whereof Iafiix my signature. Oil of mirbane or Wintergreen"; 1 o p p Water d-ye 1FREDERICK J. P-ILGRIM.

l Tripoli

